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Complex Systems Summer School 2012-After Hours

2012-06-27T22:51:46Z

Tangs:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Use this space to organize your own after hours activities.

== Weekdand at the Carlsbad caverns (driving throuigh Roswell!) ==

We two lazy Italians (Fabio and Sandro) have some vacations after the school, and after the suggestion of JP we decided to drive to Carlsbad caverns during the weekend. We will go to Albuquerque on Saturday to rent a car, and we plan to arrive to Carlsbad on Saturday evening. We have tents, and we still have one place available: who wants to join? You'll have to come bcak on your own, since we're heading westwards afterwards...

== Ride to Albuquerque late Friday night ==

Looking for a group of people going away early on Saturday morning (30th) from Albuquerque..
Currently the last shuttle for the day on 29th leaves St. John's at 6 p.m.
So if we have a few people, we can explore other ways to get to Albuquerque later in the night (after the bbq and party). Please let me know or sign up here with name and time of preference to leave St. John's.
'''Priya'''

==Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument==

[http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html The Tent Rocks national monument] offers some stunning views. There are several hiking trails
here varying in length and difficulty -we can decide depending on everyone's interest.
Meet Sunday 24th at 9am in the parking circle.

'''Sanith's Car'''

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==The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel==

I have been planning to see this [http://www.fandango.com/thebestexoticmarigoldhotel_147777/movieoverview?date= movie] for quite awhile, if you would like to go I have space for 4. Meet Saturday 23rd at 6.15pm in the parking circle.

'''Sanith's Car'''

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==Fossils and Hot Springs==

Hi, we are planning to look for fossils in the surroundings of Mora (about one hour drive from SF) tomorrow. We expect to find trilobites, maybe also ammonoids and other stuff. On the way back we'd like to stop at some hot spring resort.
Departure tomorrow saturday, at about 9:30am from the parking circle. The drivers may have to gather earlier...

If you are interested, please let us know asap so that we can organize the cars.

Update - we are trying to get more vehicles!

'''Tom's Car'''

1. Nick G

2. Sarah

3. Dan

4. Nick A.

'''Christa's Car'''

5. Matteo

6. Riccardo

7. Priya

8. Tom

'''Still needs a car:'''

9.Keegan

10. Jasmeen

11. Vanessa

12. Benji

Your Paleo-team

==Santa Fe Farmer's Market==

[[JP]] is going to the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning! Anyone want to come along? Meet 10:00am in the parking circle. There's food and all sorts of good things to buy to support our local economy, so if you'd like to sleep in and get breakfast there that might be an option...

Car 1: JP's Camry (5 seats)

1.JP

2. Vikram

3. Aleksandra

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6. Xue (I'll run down and join you guys there).

==El Rancho de las Golondrinas==

[[JP]] is going to take a trip out to [[http://www.golondrinas.org Golondrinas Museum]] and a tour of La Cienega on Saturday. Maybe we'll do a bit of hiking and find some petroglyphs. Meet up at 12:30 in the coffee shop.

Car 1: JP's Camry

1.JP

2. Vikram

3. Xue

4. Fabio

5. Nona (? still not sure)

==Rodeo de Santa Fe==

We are planning to head to the [http://rodeodesantafe.org/ Rodeo] today (June 21) at 6:00p.m. please meet drivers in the parking circle and post your car if you can drive:

Car 1: Juniper's Car 

1. Katrien

2. Nick A.

3. Xue

4. Mikkel

Car 1: JP's Car 

1. Matteo

2. Avril K.

3. Laurent

4. Marco

Car 1: Sander's Car 

1. Georg G.

2. Ben

3. Vanessa

4. Daniel S

Car 1: Joanne's Car 

1. Charlie

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'''People who still need rides'''

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==Trip to Taos and alpaca farm==

(Car is Full now) 

I am planning to rent a car to visit Taos and a alpaca farm this saturday June 23. 
The alpaca farm in my plan is Victory Ranch. http://victoryranch.com/ 
The car should be able to carry 5 people and let's share the cost. 
1. Jianfeng Xu 
2. Xin lu 
3. Si Tang 

==Trip to a museum==
On weekend (Saturday?) I'm planning to visit the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; after that I'm going to see some more of Santa Fe (no plan yet -- waiting for proposals).

For anyone interested: bus leaves from Museum Hill @ 1043am; I will be waiting in the parking circle from 1030am.

Cheers,
Piotr

==Road Trip to Boulder, Colorado==

From Gareth: Hi all, I'm planning on making a trip up to Boulder, CO for the weekend. It's about a 6 1/2 hr drive from Santa Fe and I'll be renting a car. My main reason for the trip is to see a friend of mine so you might have to sort your own accommodation (camping/youth hostel/hotel). We're planning on a bit of hiking nearby. The plan is to leave straight from class on Friday evening and arrive back in Santa Fe on Sunday eve. If you're interested in splitting petrol and rental fee and joining me for some Springsteen singalongs then sign up:

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==Some Banjo fun out on the town==

My brother will be having a concert this Saturday June 16 at the Second Street Brewery (original location) from 6-9p.m. I will be at the parking circle at 6p.m. For those who do not sign up for a car don't forget Friday and Saturday $5 cabs.

[http://www.secondstreetbrewery.com/2012/05/todd-the-fox-9/ Todd and the Fox Venue Details]

[http://www.toddandthefox.com/fr_home.cfm To hear their music]

If anyone would like to join:

Car 1: Juniper's Car 

1. Katrien (not sure if we'll be back from the lake trip by 6pm. Somebody can take my place if they want.) back up: Georg Weber

2. Marque

3. Sarah

4. Marco

==Dancing==

Swing dancing on Monday 18th June.
Lessons from 7 to 8 P.M.
Dancing from 8 on wards.
The cost is $8 including the lesson and dancing (or $3 for the dancing). Venue: Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Road. We have not yet decided on transportation. We could either take a cab or walk -- Let's try to decide during dinner.
Sign up below if you are interested:

1.Vikram -- Slightly biased towards taking the lesson. 
2. Xue -- dancing, though not a strong preference. 
3. Mark - I could use a lesson, or twelve. Do we have transportation? 
4. Chloe -- would rather walk down with everyone than skip the lesson. 
5. Aleksandra -- would try lesson, may be stay for dancing. 

PS: If you are on the edge because you want to attend the session on "Introduction to Python". I would be happy to walk you through the basics of Python at a later time. -- Vikram

PPS: how about a Dancing Python lunch tomorrow? I can do intro tutoring too. --Chloe

Other varieties --

There's a contra on the 23rd; swing dancing most Mondays; this is supposed to be a great tango town, and the drop-in-friendly beginner class on Thursday PM was good ($20, though).

[http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Sidebar/Dance_fever_in_Santa_Fe swing, salsa, tango]

[http://www.folkmads.org/may_jun_calendar12.html contras, here and ABQ]

We've heard great Appalachian-style folk musicians here already, but I haven't found a ceili or hoedown locally.

--Chloe

==Trip to Taos==

JP and Tom are going to go to Taos on Saturday 6/16. Sights to see will include the High Road to Taos, Taos Pueblo, the Taos Gorge, Taos Earthships, and the plenty of Taos Hippies.
 
Car 1: JP's Camry 

1.[[JP]] 
2. 
3.Piotr 
4.Matteo 
5.Vikram 
 

Car 2: Tom's Car 
1 
2 Miguel 
3 Riccardo 
4 Priya 

From Andres: I'm sorry... I decided to stay tomorrow at St. John's. I'm very sorry to letting you know so late...! I want to rest, and there is some work I'd like to do...
From Nick: Same for me guys. I feel exhausted. Sorry for telling you so late. Enjoy!

==Trip to Abiquiu==

We are organizing a trip to lake Abiquiu this weekend. ATTENTION ATTENTION! Drivers (Christa, Fabio, John, Tom and David) will meet at 8:30 tomorrow morning (Saturday), and will go with Christa to town to rent 4 cars. We'll pick the others up at 9:30. Those in Christas car, meet at 9am. See you tomorrow!

Fabio

Friederike

Elena

Mikkel

John

Nona

Abby

Marco

Aleksandra

Jasmeen

Dan

Sandro

Ian (if there is any room)

Vanessa (ditto)

Christa (my car seats 5 including me, but I want to stop by Los Alamos to pick up my dog on the way. That adds ~30 min to the drive. "Christa's Honda has manual transmission. do we need a second driver on the car who can drive a stick shift car?" "Yes"- Christa

1. Christa

2. Xue (though I'm also willing to be a driver if necessary)

3. Katrien

4. Jianfeng Xu

5. Xin

Tom

Nick A

==Bandelier Field Trip==

Bandelier Field Trip
Trip to Bandelier National Monument on Sat. June 9.
We might string a visit to the Valles Caldera and Bradbury Science Museum/Los Alamos in as well. If another group would like to stay around Bandelier, we can split up.

Head over to the [[Bandelier Trip 2012 | Bandelier Trip]] Page to sign up!

==Mafia==

[[JP]] is a huge fan of Mafia/Werewolf. Let's play a game sometime in the lower commons.

Let's meet Saturday evening at 8:00 in the lower commons for our first game.

- [[Ryan_James|Ryan]] is down for this.

- Jasmeen is also a big fan of Mafia.

- Ian has never played, but is interested

- Vikram is interested in learning the game.

- Tom F. would like to join and can also teach "The Resistance" a very similar game

- Katrien wants to play too

==FOOTBALL!==

Anyone up for a friendly game of soccer? We can check out equipment from the gym.

[Team: Continuous!] 
1. [[Piotr Milanowski|Piotr]] 
2. [[Marco Duenas|Marco]] 
3.[[Oleksandr Ivanov|Alex]] 
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5. 
[Team: Discrete!] 
1. [[Fabio Cresto Aleina|Fabio]] 
2. [[Matteo Chinazzi|Matteo]] 
3.[[JP]] 
4. 
5.

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-Project Presentations

2012-06-27T21:26:00Z

Tangs: /* The Robustness, Stability and Persistence of Niche-Structured Food Webs */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Use this space to post project presentations and outlines. Include group members, a brief outline, and your slides.

[[Presentations 2012|SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS SIGN-UP]]
=== The Robustness, Stability and Persistence of Niche-Structured Food Webs ===

Si, Miguel, Hide, Sarah

We are interested in the properties of food webs, a network structure describing who eats whom within an ecological community. In 2000, William and Martinez proposed the niche model, which generates synthetic food web structures by ordering species according to ‘niche values’ and assigning trophic relationships by allowing consumers to feed on the species whose niche values fall within a particular range. The niche model has successfully replicated many properties of empirical food webs.

However, whether the niche organization in food webs tends to produce more diverse, stable, robust and persistent communities remains unknown. In this study, we randomly generated food webs in which predator-prey links are formed according to the niche model and contrasted these with unstructured food webs in which predator-prey links are randomly assigned among species. We used the bioenergetic model to produce persisting food webs of both structural types. In the presentation on Friday, we will show a few preliminary results, such as the difference of the two types of food webs in complexity, robustness and stability.

Human impacts upon ecosystems – for example, the introduction of invasive species or the disturbance of the system and subsequent loss of species – may lead to collapse of entire ecological communities. We will continue to explore the persistence of these dynamic food webs under environmental perturbation after the summer school. We also plan to explore a separate structural model to study how the evolution of networks on both micro- and macroevolutionary timescales could possibly contribute to stability.

=== Price-time Dynamics of Contracts Traded on Prediction Markets ===

Joanne, Vikram, Matteo, Sanith

Prediction markets have been shown to outperform traditional methods of polls and opinion surveys in forecasting future events. The futures contracts traded in these markets assess the expectation of occurrence of a variety of events spread across multiple domains (political, economic, entertainment, financial and weather). We explore the feasibility of 'predicting' the outcome of binary true/false prediction market contracts ahead of their expiry date using a neural-network based machine learning approach. In addition we focus on the characteristics of political-based contracts to establish whether they exhibit characteristic 'fundamental' properties.

=== How Complex Languages Replicate through Simple Brains ===

Katrien, Vanessa, Sandro, Cameron, Jasmeen

Through the use of an iterated learning experiment, we investigated the transmission of a "high entropy", randomised initial language through successive generations of participants. We want to see what features of the language replicated most easily, and what structure emerged by the end of the chain. Our hypothesis is that the language converges to a "low entropy" equilibrium state with a minimal number of words, morphemes, and form-meaning distinctions.

=== Collaboration in times of stress: an Agent Based Modelling approach ===

Fabio Cresto Aleina, Elena del Val, Tom Fennewald and Friederike Greb

We want to investigate the influence of exogenous stress on cooperative behaviour. We propose an agent based model in which the agents can be interpreted as farmers living in a water limited environment. With changes in precipitation patterns, the farmers undergo stress, and we observe how this impacts relationships among farmers and their properties.

=== Simple variation of the logistic map as a model to invoke questions on cellular protein trafficking ===
(Sepehr Ehsani, http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5557)

Many open problems in biology, as in the physical sciences, display nonlinear and 'chaotic' dynamics, which, to the extent possible, cannot be reasonably understood. Moreover, mathematical models which aim to predict/estimate unknown aspects of a biological system cannot provide more information about the set of biologically meaningful (e.g., 'hidden') states of the system than could be understood by the designer of the model ab initio. Here, the case is made for the utilization of such models to shift from a 'predictive' to a 'questioning' nature, and a simple natural-logarithm variation of the logistic polynomial map is presented that can invoke questions about protein trafficking in eukaryotic cells.

===Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Crisis: Using Twitter data to Explore the Effect of the Tōhoku Earthquake.===

Christa Brelsford and Xin Lu

Abstract:
We use twitter data from 7 days before and after the Tōhoku Earthquake to explore how cooperation rates, social network structure and connectivity, and social network vulnerability changed in Japan in response to the disaster. An English language data set is collected for the same time period to use as a control. Data is collected for a period of 96 hours starting from March 4th 2011 2:46pm JST and for 96 hours beginning March 11th 2011 2:46 pm JST. The rate of cooperative behavior, measured by the occurrence of helping words in tweets increases slightly in the English dataset and by an order of magnitude in the Japanese dataset. A network analysis is also performed. Network edges are retweets and direct messages. In future work, we hope to explore whether problem solving capacity in a social system changes in response to crises, based on changes in the rate of cooperation and information transfer in a network.

=== The CSSS Network ===

Tom & Riccardo (with JP and others)

We will investigate the questions you are dying to know: What interesting interactions are revealed from the first 3 weeks of the Complex System Summer School survey? Have barriers between academic disciplines been broken down? Do power laws fit the data!? ...

Let us know if you have specific questions or if you would like to be involved in data analysis!

=== Is there a method in the madness? the dynamic structures of human language use ===

Priya and Riccardo

Psychiatric anecdotal reports point to the monotony, lack of emotion and sometimes intelligibility in many clinical populations. Linear measures of fluency and prosody, however, present only controversial differences between patients and healthy controls and only in unnatural phonations (i.e. say "aaaaa" for 30 secs).
We therefore go complex and chaotic on a set of more ecological recordings and transcriptions from 4 clinical populations (Asperger's, Schizophrenics, Depressed and Right Hemisphere Damage patients) as well as from healthy controls.
We then set a classifier-driven race: will non-linear analyses outcompete linear analyses in discriminating between pathologies?

=== Escaping the Poverty Trap: Modeling the Interplay Between Economic Growth and the Ecology of Infectious Disease ===

Georg, Ben, Laurent, Oscar

The dynamics of economies and infectious disease are inexorably linked: economic well-being influences health (sanitation, nutrition, etc) and health influences economic well-being (labor productivity lost to sickness and disease). Often societies are locked into "poverty traps" of poor health and poor economy. Here, we demonstrate poverty traps formed in models of infection and endogenous growth, as well as ways to break out of poverty traps. We explore two mechanisms of escape: one, through an influx of capital, and another through changing the percentage of GDP spent on healthcare. We find large influxes of capital is successful, but increasing health spending does not. Our results have important policy implications in the distribution of aid and within-country healthcare spending.

=== The Targeting and Timing of Treatment Influences the Emergence of Influenza Resistance in Structured Populations ===

Ben, Laurent, Oscar, Georg

Evolution of antiviral resistance in influenza carries large societal impacts through morbidity and mortality caused by treatment failure. Several previous studies put forth theory regarding the optimal timing, targeting and absolute level of treatment in populations. Few of these studies, however, have considered populations with explicit structure. Here we present a model of antiviral resistance on networks and explore the timing, targeting and levels of treatment. Interestingly, we find bistability as a result of treatment leading to the existence of an unstable manifold, above which successful treatment (i.e.: no resistance) is impossible. We find, contrary to previous results, that degree-targeted treatment is not optimal, and leads to higher levels of resistance than random treatment. Additionally, in accordance with previous results, we find an optimum level of treatment which is less than 100%. These findings findings have important consequences in guiding policy behind influenza treatment. The bistability indicates that caution should be taken when treating populations when the absolute numbers of infections are unknown. Positively, our results indicate that putting resources into targeted treatment is not necessary, random treatment is preferable.

=== Learning in Random Boolean Networks ===

Nick A., Keegan, Matteo, Vikram, Sarah, Mark

Inspired by biochemical networks which adapt on evolutionary timescales, neural networks that adapt during development and learning, and universal computation in cellular automata, we have implemented several models of learning in Random Boolean Networks (RBNs) in order to better understand the relationships between network structure, node interaction rules, and network output.

=== Enzyme Catalysis and the Outcome of Chemical Reactions ===
Piotr and Georg W.
Enzymes are catalysts that accelerate chemical reactions but do not affect their outcome. This traditional paradism was developed under artificail test tube conditions. Our project investigates the possibility that the presence of an enzyme can alter the course of a reaction if it takes place under more physiologic conditions.

=== How Does a Stochastic Environment affect Community Assembly? ===

Xue, Χλοε, Xiaoli

We are interested in how exogenous temporal variability in resource availability affects the community structure of organisms with different resource-use strategies. Organisms induce additional resource stress on each other through competition. This is an abstraction of an arid environment with unreliable rainfall; the organisms themselves have been abstracted to four unitless parameters that allocate their resources to different parts of their lifecycles. The system has memory, as the previous presence of an organism affects the resource transport mechanism (an abstraction of soil).

=== How Does a Network’s Structure Influence its Traceability? ===

Xin and Abby

We are interested in systematically studying the problem of finding the source of a contamination spread through a network. We model a contamination spreading through the food distribution network, which we represent by interconnections between farmers, distributors, and retailers, and construct an estimator for the outbreak source given only this structure. We show how the ability of the estimator to narrow down the source identification problem changes with the connectivity and the number of observations. We propose a measure for traceability, or the overall ability to identify the source of spreading given any set of outbreak observations, based on entropy. We show how this measure appropriately reflects the range of uncertainty in identifying the source. We believe this measure may be useful in the design of networks that are conducive to accurate identification of the source of contamination.

=== We Got the Skills to Pay the Bills: Exploring the Link Between Occupation Diversity and Innovation===

Andrés, Charlie, Gareth, and Nick

Where does diversity in skills or occupations come from and why does it lead to more innovative cities? Previous work in this area has shown that there is a scaling behaviour which allows citizens of larger cities to earn an extra 15% in income whilst making use of 15% fewer gas stations, for example. Making use of occupation, patent, and population data of US Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA), we try to understand what factors make successful cities. Here we assume that successful cities are those cities which are most innovative as determined by the production of patents. In addition we use agent-based modelling to explore how and why people acquire new skills and whether this leads to more productive cities.

=== Space of complex networks and robustness ===
Ian, Marco, Xin, and Oleksandr

Complex networks have various properties which can be measured in real networks (WWW, social networks, biological networks), e.g. degree distribution, modularity, hierarchy, assortativity etc. Robustness of complex networks is a big question, however only some progress have been done in this direction. For example, it was shown that the scale-free networks are much more topologically robust to random attacks than random networks. Various characteristics of complex networks might influence the robustness differently. The question is how?

We generated continuous topological space of networks with respect to degree distribution (from random to scale-free) and clustering (from none to high). Then we attacked the network by removing vertices randomly and highly connected (hubs). The next step is to calculate network robustness, it is non-trivial task because there are many different ways to do it. So far we calculate the size of giant component during attack process for the entire space.

=== Trade network formation: the role of technology and geography ===

Marco and Matteo

Geography and technology play important roles in economic activities, e.g. international trade flows diminish dramatically with distance; salaries, prices, and factor endowments vary across locations; and productivities are really different across countries' industries. International trade theories have gained some non-negligible reputation explaining the sizes of aggregated trade flows, nonetheless few attention has being payed to the formation of the bilateral trade relations. We develop a network formation model that incorporates differences in technological capabilities across countries and the effect of the geographical distance as a proxy of trade barriers.

===Cultural Evolution of Literary Genres===

Graham, Dan, Benji, Nona

Summary: This project explores the dynamics of cultural evolution using a case study: the rise and differentiation of literary genres. Genres are modeled as feature sets that may undergo gene-like mutations and are subject to the selective pressure of consumer preferences. We also hope to include the impact of institutional actors.

Methods: Agent Based Modeling, Genetic Algorithms, Cluster Analysis, Phylogenetics

===Emergence of Money through an agent based model===
Aleksandra, David, Jianfeng, Vikram

We start from a well known model by Kiyotaki and Moore which shows the emergence of money in a homogeneous population and explore how heterogeneity affects this emergence through an agent based model.

===Level-k thinking, collective behavior, and limit cycles===
Seth, Daniel, Cameron

What do all those things have in common? That's what we're trying to figure out. The sub-presentations of this project are satellites around an experimental result showing that the individual-level heuristic adjustment of what-you-think-I-think-you-think behavior leads to a group-level collective behavior that drives a periodic trajectory through the strategy space of Rock-Paper-Scissors. We will have an analysis of the data, an agent-based model establishing sufficient conditions, and a sketch of an analytic result modeling this phenomenon as symmetry-breaking.

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:34:13Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Every year we have a T-shirt design contest, where CSSS Students create designs (relevant to the summer school) and during the end of the second week we vote on the one we will print and distribute to the cohort. Please post your T-shirt design below. The design will be printed on a single colored T-shirt (keep in mind which color T-shirt you would like to print on while planning your design). The print that will go on the T-shirt is limited to a two color back and a one color front.

Have fun and be creative!

==2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions==
[[File:Urania.jpg]]

Urania blowing seeds of complexity

This is a draft I prepared a late evening some time before the CSSS. I didn't know at that time that the dorms have muse names and that I'll end up in the Urania...

Urania was the muse of Astronomy and also the Muse of Mathematics. she was often depicted holding a globe in her hands. In this case the cubist face and hands of Urania are borrowed from Picasso and she holds a SFI globe/dandelion flower head, on which she blows in order to disperse the seeds of complexity.

In my view this would need some serious polishing and volunteers to do so are welcome! Feedbacks also!

Cheers, Nick Goudemand

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[[File:SFI transit small.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

One more design.

Cheers, Nick G

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[[File:SFI transit small 2.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

An alternative version of the SFI transit in front of apple design....thanks to Sander for the suggestion.

Nick G
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[[File:SFI logo with transit2.jpg]]

Venus transit in front of SFI logo

another proposition: urania in the back and this logo with the Venus transit in the front of Tshirt.

Nick

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[[File:T shirt.jpg]]

Crystals are a prime manifestation of complexity. The design (front and back) represents crystals grown in cell culture dishes as seen under the microscope. The picture on the right has been mapped on a canvas with polar coordinates to show more symmetrical structure and avoid having a beginning and an end. (One from Georg Weber)

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Simple Systems Summer School (SSSS) Rejects

(from Charlie)

(not necessarily white; and not necessarily this font and logo)

[[File:SSSSR.png]]

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Black shirt:

Obviously I am very bad at photoshop, but I hope you get my idea. We can work on the final design with someone with experience in graphics design.

Also, I would like the SFI logo in the back of the shirt, small and up near the neck.

(from Miguel)

[[File:T-shirt.png]]

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White shirt:

Also needs some refinement with the help of a graphic designer. And we have to narrow down the colors (I didn't know only two colors possible).

Maybe this picture can go in the back and the SFI logo in front in the middle of the chest?

(from Miguel)

[[File:Network-shirt.jpg]]

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Rossler attractor mountains & sun (rough idea)

[[File:rosslermountain.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

(Maybe orange and pine-green trajectories in the mountains, orange for the sun? -Chloe)

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Another idea, which someone who knows NetLogo could help me make: a network of all the students in the summer school, connected via project links?? (or some other link?) (N.B. we can only use two colours, so can't have multi-coloured agents.)

-Jasmeen

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Fractal tree and code

[[File:Fractal_and_code.png]]

-Mark and Nick

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Mountains and cantor set

[[File:Mountains_and_Cantor_Set.png]]

And another - Sarah's idea.

-Mark

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[[File:qihc.png]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

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[[File:qihc_arrow.png]]

[[File:qihc-arrow.pdf]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

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=== Complexity Triptych ===

[[File:Tshirt.smt.jpg]]

A triptych. Culture (Native American mural at Bandelier), modeling/mathematics (cellular automata from the Crutchfield lecture), and biology/nature (pigment patterning on Olivia porphyria).

I'd like a front breast-pocket style image of the SFI logo plus the complex systems summer school and year...

Could use some fine-tuning! Maybe grayscale, maybe a higher res snail shell... -- Sarah Tweedt

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One more idea...a very messy doodle that would obviously need to be redone, but just putting it up since I haven't had time to make a nicer version yet. It's supposed to be the view from St. John's, made up of some sort of petroglyph-like complex system with the SFI logo as the sun.

[[File:smaller.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

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Si Tang: Lorenz & Butterfly 
Front: 
[[File:front_STang.jpg|250px]] 
Back: 
[[File:back_STang2.jpg|500px]]

File:Back STang2.jpg

2012-06-12T22:33:53Z

Tangs:

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:28:42Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:28:20Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Every year we have a T-shirt design contest, where CSSS Students create designs (relevant to the summer school) and during the end of the second week we vote on the one we will print and distribute to the cohort. Please post your T-shirt design below. The design will be printed on a single colored T-shirt (keep in mind which color T-shirt you would like to print on while planning your design). The print that will go on the T-shirt is limited to a two color back and a one color front.

Have fun and be creative!

==2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions==
[[File:Urania.jpg]]

Urania blowing seeds of complexity

This is a draft I prepared a late evening some time before the CSSS. I didn't know at that time that the dorms have muse names and that I'll end up in the Urania...

Urania was the muse of Astronomy and also the Muse of Mathematics. she was often depicted holding a globe in her hands. In this case the cubist face and hands of Urania are borrowed from Picasso and she holds a SFI globe/dandelion flower head, on which she blows in order to disperse the seeds of complexity.

In my view this would need some serious polishing and volunteers to do so are welcome! Feedbacks also!

Cheers, Nick Goudemand

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[[File:SFI transit small.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

One more design.

Cheers, Nick G

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[[File:SFI transit small 2.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

An alternative version of the SFI transit in front of apple design....thanks to Sander for the suggestion.

Nick G
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[[File:SFI logo with transit2.jpg]]

Venus transit in front of SFI logo

another proposition: urania in the back and this logo with the Venus transit in the front of Tshirt.

Nick

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[[File:T shirt.jpg]]

Crystals are a prime manifestation of complexity. The design (front and back) represents crystals grown in cell culture dishes as seen under the microscope. The picture on the right has been mapped on a canvas with polar coordinates to show more symmetrical structure and avoid having a beginning and an end. (One from Georg Weber)

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Simple Systems Summer School (SSSS) Rejects

(from Charlie)

(not necessarily white; and not necessarily this font and logo)

[[File:SSSSR.png]]

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Black shirt:

Obviously I am very bad at photoshop, but I hope you get my idea. We can work on the final design with someone with experience in graphics design.

Also, I would like the SFI logo in the back of the shirt, small and up near the neck.

(from Miguel)

[[File:T-shirt.png]]

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White shirt:

Also needs some refinement with the help of a graphic designer. And we have to narrow down the colors (I didn't know only two colors possible).

Maybe this picture can go in the back and the SFI logo in front in the middle of the chest?

(from Miguel)

[[File:Network-shirt.jpg]]

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Rossler attractor mountains & sun (rough idea)

[[File:rosslermountain.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

(Maybe orange and pine-green trajectories in the mountains, orange for the sun? -Chloe)

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Another idea, which someone who knows NetLogo could help me make: a network of all the students in the summer school, connected via project links?? (or some other link?) (N.B. we can only use two colours, so can't have multi-coloured agents.)

-Jasmeen

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Fractal tree and code

[[File:Fractal_and_code.png]]

-Mark and Nick

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Mountains and cantor set

[[File:Mountains_and_Cantor_Set.png]]

And another - Sarah's idea.

-Mark

----

[[File:qihc.png]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

[[File:qihc_arrow.png]]

[[File:qihc-arrow.pdf]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

=== Complexity Triptych ===

[[File:Tshirt.smt.jpg]]

A triptych. Culture (Native American mural at Bandelier), modeling/mathematics (cellular automata from the Crutchfield lecture), and biology/nature (pigment patterning on Olivia porphyria).

I'd like a front breast-pocket style image of the SFI logo plus the complex systems summer school and year...

Could use some fine-tuning! Maybe grayscale, maybe a higher res snail shell... -- Sarah Tweedt

----

One more idea...a very messy doodle that would obviously need to be redone, but just putting it up since I haven't had time to make a nicer version yet. It's supposed to be the view from St. John's, made up of some sort of petroglyph-like complex system with the SFI logo as the sun.

[[File:smaller.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

----
Si Tang: Lorenz & Butterfly 
Front: 
[[File:front_STang.jpg|200px]] 
Back: 
[[File:back_STang.jpg|200px]]

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:27:11Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:23:29Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Every year we have a T-shirt design contest, where CSSS Students create designs (relevant to the summer school) and during the end of the second week we vote on the one we will print and distribute to the cohort. Please post your T-shirt design below. The design will be printed on a single colored T-shirt (keep in mind which color T-shirt you would like to print on while planning your design). The print that will go on the T-shirt is limited to a two color back and a one color front.

Have fun and be creative!

==2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions==
[[File:Urania.jpg]]

Urania blowing seeds of complexity

This is a draft I prepared a late evening some time before the CSSS. I didn't know at that time that the dorms have muse names and that I'll end up in the Urania...

Urania was the muse of Astronomy and also the Muse of Mathematics. she was often depicted holding a globe in her hands. In this case the cubist face and hands of Urania are borrowed from Picasso and she holds a SFI globe/dandelion flower head, on which she blows in order to disperse the seeds of complexity.

In my view this would need some serious polishing and volunteers to do so are welcome! Feedbacks also!

Cheers, Nick Goudemand

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[[File:SFI transit small.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

One more design.

Cheers, Nick G

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:SFI transit small 2.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

An alternative version of the SFI transit in front of apple design....thanks to Sander for the suggestion.

Nick G
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:SFI logo with transit2.jpg]]

Venus transit in front of SFI logo

another proposition: urania in the back and this logo with the Venus transit in the front of Tshirt.

Nick

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:T shirt.jpg]]

Crystals are a prime manifestation of complexity. The design (front and back) represents crystals grown in cell culture dishes as seen under the microscope. The picture on the right has been mapped on a canvas with polar coordinates to show more symmetrical structure and avoid having a beginning and an end. (One from Georg Weber)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Simple Systems Summer School (SSSS) Rejects

(from Charlie)

(not necessarily white; and not necessarily this font and logo)

[[File:SSSSR.png]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Black shirt:

Obviously I am very bad at photoshop, but I hope you get my idea. We can work on the final design with someone with experience in graphics design.

Also, I would like the SFI logo in the back of the shirt, small and up near the neck.

(from Miguel)

[[File:T-shirt.png]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

White shirt:

Also needs some refinement with the help of a graphic designer. And we have to narrow down the colors (I didn't know only two colors possible).

Maybe this picture can go in the back and the SFI logo in front in the middle of the chest?

(from Miguel)

[[File:Network-shirt.jpg]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rossler attractor mountains & sun (rough idea)

[[File:rosslermountain.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

(Maybe orange and pine-green trajectories in the mountains, orange for the sun? -Chloe)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another idea, which someone who knows NetLogo could help me make: a network of all the students in the summer school, connected via project links?? (or some other link?) (N.B. we can only use two colours, so can't have multi-coloured agents.)

-Jasmeen

----
Fractal tree and code

[[File:Fractal_and_code.png]]

-Mark and Nick

----
Mountains and cantor set

[[File:Mountains_and_Cantor_Set.png]]

And another - Sarah's idea.

-Mark

----

[[File:qihc.png]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

[[File:qihc_arrow.png]]

[[File:qihc-arrow.pdf]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

=== Complexity Triptych ===

[[File:Tshirt.smt.jpg]]

A triptych. Culture (Native American mural at Bandelier), modeling/mathematics (cellular automata from the Crutchfield lecture), and biology/nature (pigment patterning on Olivia porphyria).

I'd like a front breast-pocket style image of the SFI logo plus the complex systems summer school and year...

Could use some fine-tuning! Maybe grayscale, maybe a higher res snail shell... -- Sarah Tweedt

----

One more idea...a very messy doodle that would obviously need to be redone, but just putting it up since I haven't had time to make a nicer version yet. It's supposed to be the view from St. John's, made up of some sort of petroglyph-like complex system with the SFI logo as the sun.

[[File:smaller.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

----
Front: 
[[File:front_STang.jpg]] 
Back: 
[[File:back_STang.jpg]]

-Si Tang

Complex Systems Summer School 2012-TShirts

2012-06-12T22:22:30Z

Tangs: /* 2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

Every year we have a T-shirt design contest, where CSSS Students create designs (relevant to the summer school) and during the end of the second week we vote on the one we will print and distribute to the cohort. Please post your T-shirt design below. The design will be printed on a single colored T-shirt (keep in mind which color T-shirt you would like to print on while planning your design). The print that will go on the T-shirt is limited to a two color back and a one color front.

Have fun and be creative!

==2012 CSSS T-Shirt Design Submissions==
[[File:Urania.jpg]]

Urania blowing seeds of complexity

This is a draft I prepared a late evening some time before the CSSS. I didn't know at that time that the dorms have muse names and that I'll end up in the Urania...

Urania was the muse of Astronomy and also the Muse of Mathematics. she was often depicted holding a globe in her hands. In this case the cubist face and hands of Urania are borrowed from Picasso and she holds a SFI globe/dandelion flower head, on which she blows in order to disperse the seeds of complexity.

In my view this would need some serious polishing and volunteers to do so are welcome! Feedbacks also!

Cheers, Nick Goudemand

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:SFI transit small.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

One more design.

Cheers, Nick G

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:SFI transit small 2.jpg]]

SFI transit: the next generation of innovation is coming!

An alternative version of the SFI transit in front of apple design....thanks to Sander for the suggestion.

Nick G
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:SFI logo with transit2.jpg]]

Venus transit in front of SFI logo

another proposition: urania in the back and this logo with the Venus transit in the front of Tshirt.

Nick

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[[File:T shirt.jpg]]

Crystals are a prime manifestation of complexity. The design (front and back) represents crystals grown in cell culture dishes as seen under the microscope. The picture on the right has been mapped on a canvas with polar coordinates to show more symmetrical structure and avoid having a beginning and an end. (One from Georg Weber)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Simple Systems Summer School (SSSS) Rejects

(from Charlie)

(not necessarily white; and not necessarily this font and logo)

[[File:SSSSR.png]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Black shirt:

Obviously I am very bad at photoshop, but I hope you get my idea. We can work on the final design with someone with experience in graphics design.

Also, I would like the SFI logo in the back of the shirt, small and up near the neck.

(from Miguel)

[[File:T-shirt.png]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

White shirt:

Also needs some refinement with the help of a graphic designer. And we have to narrow down the colors (I didn't know only two colors possible).

Maybe this picture can go in the back and the SFI logo in front in the middle of the chest?

(from Miguel)

[[File:Network-shirt.jpg]]

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rossler attractor mountains & sun (rough idea)

[[File:rosslermountain.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

(Maybe orange and pine-green trajectories in the mountains, orange for the sun? -Chloe)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another idea, which someone who knows NetLogo could help me make: a network of all the students in the summer school, connected via project links?? (or some other link?) (N.B. we can only use two colours, so can't have multi-coloured agents.)

-Jasmeen

----
Fractal tree and code

[[File:Fractal_and_code.png]]

-Mark and Nick

----
Mountains and cantor set

[[File:Mountains_and_Cantor_Set.png]]

And another - Sarah's idea.

-Mark

----

[[File:qihc.png]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

[[File:qihc_arrow.png]]

[[File:qihc-arrow.pdf]]

[[Cameron Ray Smith|Cameron]]

----

=== Complexity Triptych ===

[[File:Tshirt.smt.jpg]]

A triptych. Culture (Native American mural at Bandelier), modeling/mathematics (cellular automata from the Crutchfield lecture), and biology/nature (pigment patterning on Olivia porphyria).

I'd like a front breast-pocket style image of the SFI logo plus the complex systems summer school and year...

Could use some fine-tuning! Maybe grayscale, maybe a higher res snail shell... -- Sarah Tweedt

----

One more idea...a very messy doodle that would obviously need to be redone, but just putting it up since I haven't had time to make a nicer version yet. It's supposed to be the view from St. John's, made up of some sort of petroglyph-like complex system with the SFI logo as the sun.

[[File:smaller.jpg]]

-Jasmeen

----
Front:
[[File:front_STang.jpg]]
Back:
[[File:back_STang.jpg]]

File:Back STang.jpg

2012-06-12T22:21:15Z

Tangs:

File:Front STang.jpg

2012-06-12T22:20:54Z

Tangs:

Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2012

2012-06-03T23:22:42Z

Tangs: /* Monday, June 11, 6:00pm */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

==Thursday, June 7, 6:00pm==

1. Sarah Tweedt 
2. Georg F. Weber 
3. Georg M. Goerg 
4. Cameron Smith 
5. Mikkel Vestergaard 
6. Friederike Greb 
7. Fabio Cresto Aleina 
8. Benji zusman 
9. Elena del Val 
10.Riccardo Fusaroli 
11. Nick Allgaier 
12.John Long 
13. Sepehr Ehsani 
14. David Pugh 
15. 

==Friday, June 8 7:00am==
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==Monday, June 11, 6:00pm==
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2. Dan Wu 
3. Xiaoli Dong 
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==Tuesday, June 12, 6:00pm==
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Alfred Hubler's Nonlinear Dynamics Lab 2012

2012-06-03T23:21:55Z

Tangs: /* Monday, June 11, 6:00pm */

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2012}}

==Thursday, June 7, 6:00pm==

1. Sarah Tweedt 
2. Georg F. Weber 
3. Georg M. Goerg 
4. Cameron Smith 
5. Mikkel Vestergaard 
6. Friederike Greb 
7. Fabio Cresto Aleina 
8. Benji zusman 
9. Elena del Val 
10.Riccardo Fusaroli 
11. Nick Allgaier 
12.John Long 
13. Sepehr Ehsani 
14. David Pugh 
15. 

==Friday, June 8 7:00am==
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN EARLY MORNING CLASS! 
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==Monday, June 11, 6:00pm==
1. Hidetoshi Inamine 
2. Dan Wu 
3. Xiaoli Dong 
4. Si Tang
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==Tuesday, June 12, 6:00pm==
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Si Tang

2012-05-28T23:29:57Z

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Personal website: [http://sites.google.com/site/stangchicago/]